> not working

in newsgroup messages isn't working on my computer since I changed to

I put in a line of dots............ to show where my reply starts.

Is there any way to get > >> working properly again please?

Geopelia

 

If you are using Outlook Express, then from the top line click on

Tools
then click on

Options
then click on

Send
then click on

News Sending Format - Plain text options

and there you are.

 

"Titus G" wrote in message

If you are using Outlook Express, then from the top line click on

Tools
then click on

Options
then click on

Send
then click on

News Sending Format - Plain text options

and there you are.
.................

Tools doesn't show Options. I've got Windows 7. There is an options, but
only about minimising the ribbon.
I found some options for the internet but nothing about mail or newsgroups.

The email seems to be Windows Live. Would that make a difference? Is it
still Outlook Express?

Geopelia

 

Hi Geo,

You are using Windows Live Mail to read and post.
You can not get > >> working properly in Windows Live Mail.

You would really need to install and use a better program than Windows Live Mail.

For completeness...

"WLM QuoteFix" will fix the > >> in Windows Live Mail. But "WLM
QuoteFix" is not automatic, and not simple to install for most users.
You would most likely find it easier to use a better program than
Windows Live Mail, than you would to use "WLM QuoteFix" with
Windows Live Mail.
"WLM QuoteFix" -- http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/wlmquote/

 

"Ralph Fox" wrote in message

Hi Geo,

You are using Windows Live Mail to read and post.
You can not get > >> working properly in Windows Live Mail.

You would really need to install and use a better program than Windows Live
Mail.

For completeness...

"WLM QuoteFix" will fix the > >> in Windows Live Mail. But "WLM
QuoteFix" is not automatic, and not simple to install for most users.
You would most likely find it easier to use a better program than
Windows Live Mail, than you would to use "WLM QuoteFix" with
Windows Live Mail.
"WLM QuoteFix" -- http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/wlmquote/


--
Kind regards
Ralph

<Thank you. I'll ask the computer man. I'll stick < in front of my posts to
please the person who grumbled.
Geopelia

 

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ralph Fox wrote:
[snip]

Well bloody hell! I'm still using XP (for now) on this brilliant T60
ThinkPad of mine and have been using OEQuotefix since the days of W98SE
(IIRC).

Great to see they're still modding MS' crappy software to make it more
usable and standards-compliant.
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

"~misfit~" wrote in message
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Ralph Fox wrote:
[snip]

Well bloody hell! I'm still using XP (for now) on this brilliant T60
ThinkPad of mine and have been using OEQuotefix since the days of W98SE
(IIRC).

Great to see they're still modding MS' crappy software to make it more
usable and standards-compliant.
--
</Shaun>

...................

< I had no problems when I was using XP.
I think I had Outlook Express then. The computer man put in Windows Live
when he installed Windows 7.

Geopelia

 

Unfortunately, "WLM QuoteFix" is not something like OEQuotefix which
you can install into OE and forget, and it keeps doing the job.

Installing "WLM QuoteFix" does not modify Windows Live Mail. You
have to manually run "WLM QuoteFix" for each reply post, between
clicking "Reply" and writing your own text.

But yes, there is a clear demand for fixes to MS software to make
it more usable and standards-compliant.

 

Indeed. Once OEQuotefix is installed and 30 seconds spent configuring it I
never touch it again.

That is a shame. It sounds much less useful than OEQ was / is.

Partly because of MS arogance in thinking *they* set the standards. (<sigh>
Yet I still keep using their OSes...)
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

"EMB" wrote in message

I'm sure we've been here before Geo. Get rid of Windows Live Mail - get
your computer man to install Mozilla Thunderbird for your mail and news.
It's not too different to what you have (so you'll learn to use it
easily) but it works properly.
..........

< Thank you. I'll see if the computer man can do it.

 

quoting someone else

Shit is this still going on?

Sigh

 

Good on you Geo, that is the spirit.

 

Mozilla, can you see this?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/history/details/

 

"EMB" wrote in message

Don't "see if he can do it". You pay him so he bloody well will do it -
that's what you pay him for. Otherwise, find a new computer man.

..............

It depends how you install it. If it involves buying a box of something he
will have to see if there is one in the shop, or get one in.
He's very good.

 

Partly because of MS arogance in thinking *they* set the standards. (<sigh>
Yet I still keep using their OSes...)[/QUOTE]

Seriously ? Save yourself a heap of aggravation and change ... or at least,
try something else.

I suggest a long term support version of Mint ... but others will have
alternative views.

 

"EMB" wrote in message

There is nothing to buy. It's a free download and 30 second install.
He should be able to do it remotely.

.............
Thank you. He can get into this computer remotely. I'll ask him.

 

Heh! I have, several times. However each time I seem to spend more time
fusking around with trying to get 3rd party stuff that I use to run that I

Yeah, a few folks I know have said that Mint is good.

Cheers,
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).